Sunday 10 June 2012

Earl Godwin buried - 1053

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Project Gutenburg




A.D. 1053. In this year died Godwin, the earl, on the seventeenth before the kalends of May, and he is buried at Winchester, in the Old-minster; and Harold, the earl, his son, succeeded to the earldom, and to all that which his father had held: and Elgar, the earl, succeeded to the earldom which Harold before held.

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